Table Cell Renderer Text Alignment Problem

Question

Hallo !
I got a JTable with cells containing text and icons. I would like to have the icon on the top and the text on the bottom, but the renderer aligns always the text on the right of the icon.
I made a custom renderer extending DefaultTableCellRenderer and there i wrote setVerticalTextPosition(BOTTOM);, but it does'nt work in any way (i tried in many ways. I also used html for the text, but it's the same).
More exactly the code is
public class MyRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer{
public java.awt.Component getTableCellRendererComponent(JTable table,Object value,boolean isSelected,boolean hasFocus,int row,int column) {
        super.getTableCellRendererComponent(table,""/*value*/,isSelected,hasFocus,row,column);
FieldRenderer renderedValue=(FieldRenderer)value;
//setHorizontalAlignment(CENTER);
//setVerticalAlignment(CENTER);
setVerticalTextPosition(BOTTOM);
setText(renderedValue.getRepresentation());
setToolTipText(renderedValue.getRepresentation());
setIcon(renderedValue.getIcon());
        return this;
}where FieldRenderer is an object containing icon, text, etc.
Can anyone help ?
Thanks in advance, Massimo
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Answer 1

Setting a renderer for first column:
assetTable.getColumnModel().getColumn(1).setRenderer(tableRenderer);Your custom renderer must honor the selection color and border or otherwise the first column will not look selected. You should subclass DefaultTableCellRenderer:
public class AssesTableRenderer extends DefaultTableCellRenderer  {
  public Component getTableCellRendererComponent(...) {
    // default renderer uses a label
    JLabel label = (JLabel)super.getTableCellRendererComponent(...);
    // decide icon to use
    Icon icon = ...;
    label.setIcon(icon);
   return label;
}